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Ecuador has requested that the WikiLeaks founder and fugitive Julian Assange
be allowed to leave its London embassy to receive medical treatment without
fear of being arrested and extradited to Sweden to face questioning over
alleged sex crimes.

Ricardo Patino, the country’s Foreign Minister, made the request yesterday
during a meeting with William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, on the fringes
of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The previous evening Mr Assange addressed the minister and a room full of
journalists by video link from the embassy where he has spent 100 days in
hiding, seeking to avoid